UFO Drummer Talks 40th Anniversary, New Album

May 29, 2009

Patrick Douglas of GreatFallsTribune.com recently conducted an interview with UFO drummer Andy Parker. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

On the band's 40th anniversary:

"It's extremely exciting for me. For the rest of the guys in the band, 40 years after the conception to still be doing it and still have a chance to make an album and put it out, for a lot of bands, that's not an option anymore."

On UFO's latest effort, "The Visitor", which sometimes conjures loose comparisons to COVERDALE/PAGE mixed with the occasional dip into BLACK CROWES-flavored riffs and keyboards:

"I'm really enjoying this because this is where the band was born. We came out of that blues boom in the '60s in England. When bands like ZEPPELIN and that were getting started ... and THE YARDBIRDS and all this kind of blues. American blues influenced British musicians and that's kind of where we started. It's almost like we've come full circle and we're revisiting that. It's great for me."

On the fact that UFO has never made it a goal to smash the charts:

"Even back in the late '70s the record label was trying to steer us that way to have a crossover sort of track. If they decided there was a track that was more commercial, absolutely, we'd go for it (but) we never really, consciously as a band decided that we were going to do this ... or that (to get on radio)."

Read the entire interview from GreatFallsTribune.com.

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